Christmas is one of the most wonderful occasions that are filled with excitement, and everyone is eagerly waiting for its arrival on 25th December. Santa Claus is around the corner to surprise kids with his gifts as Jingle Bells will be jingling all the way! It’s year-end along with Christmas bonanza, a perfect time to rejoice with family and friends! Christmas creates some great magical moments, and you never know Santa might pour you with bundles of joys in your kitty.
Merry Christmas to all (Pinterest)
Celebrate Christmas within a reasonable budget (Pinterest)
Presented here are a few best ideas to help you make this Christmas occasion bright, colorful and cheerful, sans spending much of your money!
1# Decorate Christmas Tree and Your Home: In order to ignite your enthusiasm and spirit, you can decorate the Christmas Tree that you have at your place, or else you can buy a small new Christmas tree. Even if you have a pine tree at your home, you can beautify it with colorful lights, jingle bells, and mini stockings. You can place the Christmas tree at one corner of the house that would be the center of attraction. You can also fancy up the windows with ideal wrath created from a garland of blossoming greenery or embroidery hoop. You can craft the tree with paper-circle ornaments, stars, silver-wrapped candies, and ribbons.
Beautify your home with a decorative Christmas Tree (Business Insider)
You can even make medium-sized colorful stars from a mix of cellophane papers in distinct shapes and sizes that can be hung along with twine acts. You can even adorn your staircase with garlands and colorful ribbons, and also hang decorations on the front door of your house. You can even add muslin mini-craft bags and add goodies into them, and hang them on the Christmas tree or wall with festive ribbons. You can even include small berry branches along with the doorway. You can further glorify your drawing room with dazzling flowers in vases and spread snow-spritzed cotton to have a feel of wintry Christmas.
Christmas Decoration at Home (Cuded)
2# Visit Church on Christmas Day: It is a great idea to visit Church and offer prayers to Lord Jesus, and celebrate your Christmas over there. It would also give you peace of mind. You can get to hear the chorus songs sung by the church sisters on this festive occasion. You can even attend a Christmas concert that often takes place in a church in the evening. You can sit for an hour or two and hear and rejoice in the choral music and handbells.
Church Visit on Christmas (ViralStories)
3# Play Christmas Music: If you have a piano at home, you can learn and play Christmas carols and make others listen to them. You can arrange a playlist of your most preferred Christmas songs, and play them at low volume throughout the day to have a Christmas feel. You can also play Christmas song CDs and dance to its tune with your friends or mom or partner.
Play Carol Songs (YouTube)
4# Send Christmas Cards to your loved ones: You can select a few beautiful Christmas cards and send your family, friends, colleagues, and relatives via WhatsApp, Facebook, and Instagram. When you receive Christmas wishes and cards or carol GIFs from them in return, it will give you a lovely feel, and in this way, you tend to share Christmas with them. These greetings certainly rejoice the minds of your loved ones on Christmas!
Send Christmas wishes to your friends (123Greetings)
5# Make Homemade Cakes and Cookies: If you are an expert in making cakes, you can design homemade cakes, like Christmas cocoa cake, Christmas fruitcake, chocolate cake, banana cake, orange pudding cake, chocolate chip cookie cake, butter-cream cake, fruit cake, pineapple cake, egg cake, etc. You can prepare cookies like sugar cookies, spritz cookies, chocolate chip cookies, red velvet chocolate chip cookies, peanut butter cookies; and tasty muffins.
Prepare a homemade Christmas cake (IndiaMART)
6# Plan a delicious Christmas Meal at home: You can plan a Christmas dinner at home by calling your close friends, or relatives. You can either prepare a few distinct meals all by yourself or with help of someone or tell the other people to bring one dish from their homes. Arrange for those dishes that are quick to make in less time. Your Christmas meal may include roasted chicken as starters, biryani (veg or non-veg like chicken/mutton biryani), paneer dishes, aloo dum, dumplings, added with sweet dishes like ice-cream, gulab jamuns, fruit custard, jalebi, kheer, drinks, etc.
Make a delicious dish for Christmas (Good Housekeeping)
7# Watch Christmas Movies: On the day of Christmas, some of the English movie channels showcase Christmas movies. You can invite your friends to a movie watch and serve cookies, cocoa, popcorn or hot chocolate. You can watch out for some superb Christmas movies like ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’, ‘Home Alone’, ‘A Christmas Story’, ‘Elf’, ‘National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation’, ‘A Christmas Carol’, ‘Santa’s Apprentice’, ‘Mixed Nuts’, ‘Santa Claus: The Movie’, ‘All I Want for Christmas’, and many more.
Best Christmas Movies- Do Watch (Demi Burns)
8# Gift Small Presents to your families and friends: Instead of spending extra bucks on buying gifts from shops, you can wrap small tokens as Christmas gifts in gift wrappers at home as an expression of love and appreciation for the other person. Some of the homemade in-expensive gifts may include a purse, cookie gift, wooden wall frame, photo frame, brownies, homemade salsa gift, handbag, neon wood painted earrings, Santa cap, photo calendar, etc. You can also shop online for gifts like a leather cuff, iPad case, Christmas DVDs, pillow covers, etc at least prices from Amazon and Flipkart as sale season is going on. You can exchange gifts with your family members and friends by enjoying the Christmas occasion.
Present a Christmas Gift to your friends (stylingmyeveryday.com)
9# Do Some Charity: Christmas would be the finest day to do charity work so as to spread happiness, love, and kindness. You can donate a few of your nice clothes, accessories, foodstuffs, decorations, toys, etc to an NGO, or Charitable Trust. You can help out needy children by sharing food with them or volunteer the homeless people, especially children by spending some quality time with them. The more you charity, the more you’ll be blessed by these people.
Charity Work on Christmas (The TurboTax Blog)
10# Make Small Travels: As because Christmas is on Sunday this time, you can take a mini-holiday on 24th-25th December to nearby places which might be hill stations, amusement parks, or tourist places. You can have full-to enjoyment with your friends and family, and you don’t need to spend too much money also as you’re going in groups.
Mini traveling to nearby hill stations (Travel Guide)
11# Visit Shopping Malls: Most of the well-known shopping malls in your city will be colorful and decorated for Christmas. For a week before Christmas, there is Christmas Jalsa celebrated in many malls, which may include visit of Disney characters, Mass Musical concert, Cake and Muffin making, Candle Decoration workshop, Candle Bag Decoration workshop, Hand Puppet workshop, Jewellery making workshop, followed by Carol Singing activities, and Santa’s Xmas Day on 25th December.
Santa Claus entertains visitors in malls (Pinterest)
Each day from this week onward, there might be new activities going on in the evening until the 25th. It would be exciting to visit shopping malls with your friends and families for spending some exciting evenings this coming week for seeing various activities taking place for Christmas.
Christmas Celebration inside the Shopping Mall (es.dreamstime.com)
Well, Christmas will be the beautiful sparkling occasion of carol singing the whole day- “Jingle bells, jingles bells; Jingle all the way. Oh, what fun it is to ride; In a horse open sleigh”, and cute Santa Clauses giving gifts to the kids and children for their merriment.
Kids have a gala time with Santa Claus (bigmac1212.deviantart.com)
Merry Christmas to everyone! Enjoy and have too much fun with the bubbly Santa! You never know, Santa may fulfill your wishes this Christmas! 🙂
Sanghamitra Roychoudhary
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